SHIB’s lead Shytoshi Kusama, his right-hand developer Kaal Dhairya, and marketing lead Lucie have announced the rollout of the Shiba Alpha Layer, announcing that SHIB has left the meme coin status far behind. Lucie has referred to it as “Infrastructure for the Next Web3 Wave” in her tweet.
The Shiba Alpha Layer has been officially released in beta so far.
L3 solution goes live in beta
According to a post on Binance.Square shared by Lucie, Shiba Alpha Layer is a modular rollup abstraction stack created by the SHIB team in collaboration with ElderLabs and anchored to Shibarium. It offers optional FHE privacy, one seamless UX for all RollApps, an option to pay gas fees not only in BONE but also in SHIB and other coins, as well as stablecoins (USDT, USDC, etc).
Native interoperability and instant bridging will be added soon to this new layer. “No VC funding. No empty promises. Just code,” the post claims.
Shiba Alpha is to turn Shibarium into a L3 settlement layer and with it “every RollApp gains shared security and real SHIB token utility.”
Shiba Inu Launches Shib Alpha Layer — Infrastructure for the Next Web3 Wave https://t.co/esPGPf4cuU
— 𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐄 (@LucieSHIB) June 13, 2025
The lead developer, Shytoshi Kusama, who has broken a two-week silence on social media, has also drawn the community’s attention to the post about Shiba Alpha Layer published by the SHIB top developer, Kaal Dhairya. The latter stated that after this rollout, Shiba Inu is no longer just a meme coin as the “meme era ends here.”
READ THIS: https://t.co/zZcjV0VhHv
— Shytoshi Kusama™ (@ShytoshiKusama) June 13, 2025
As for Kusama, he has again promised to publish “an AI-focused whitepaper” soon and share his take on AI and SHIB’s strategy related to it.
SHIB burns skyrocket 82,366.5%
A tweet published by the Shibburn tracker a few hours ago reveals that one of the key Shiba Inu metrics – the burn rate – has displayed a staggering five-digit increase over the past 24 hours.
TOKENS BURNT Past 24Hrs: 117,028,210 (82366.5% ▲) Past 7 Days: 154,682,401 (34.94% ▲)
— Shibburn (@shibburn) June 13, 2025
The X post reported that during the past day, daily SHIB burns have soared by a whopping 82,366.5% thanks to 117,028,210 SHIB meme coins transferred to unspendable blockchain wallets.
The two largest burn transactions carried 97,568,806 SHIB and 14,047,018 SHIB.